From: kendrick@nospam.io   
      
   In article <45303FD8.50D2554B@ev1.net>,   
   BelPowerslave   wrote:   
   >Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:   
   >   
   >> That's all for now. So far, my impression is that the Xbox Live overhead   
   >> adds so much extra baggage that I'm better served by the PS2 version.   
   >   
   >Yeah, if they can't get that stuff on the US server and Xbox Live cleaned up,   
   >the PS2 is going to be the way to go. I just *cannot* believe...actually,   
   >nevermind, scratch that, I *can* believe that Sega just now started the US   
   >beta test on the fucking 13th...11 days from the game's release.   
      
   I don't have any evidence to support the thought, but I wonder if Sega   
   wasn't counting on data from the Japanese players and then had their plans   
   torpedoed by low penetration of Xbox 360 consoles.   
      
   >> We'll see if this ends up being worth ten bucks a month   
   >   
   >How many people does this one allow in a game? If it's still just 4...man...   
      
   Parties can be as large as 6, although I think that there's some game   
   mechanisms stolen from Final Fantasy XI. In PSO it was possible for the   
   same four players to run through the entire game from the beginning and   
   beat Dark Falz at the end. I get the feeling that Guild missions are   
   one-off affairs where you get together, bash heads for an hour and then   
   part company. I haven't played in a party larger than two yet.   
      
   -KKC, who wonders who he should lobby to get the original Virtua Fighter   
   as an Xbox Live Arcade title...   
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